Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (1963-10 May 2009) was an al-Qaeda leader from Libya who was tortured to death by Muammar Gaddafi's government.

Biography
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was born in 1963 in Libya to a Sunni Muslim family, and he was a devout Muslim opposed to Muammar Gaddafi's socialist government. He joined al-Qaeda in order to overthrow the governments of the Arab World and replace them with Islamist states, and he became the operator of the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, processing several fighters from the Middle East and Europe. In November 2001, he was arrested by Pakistani officials and turned over to the FBI, which interrogated him. On 27 March 2004, he was handed over to Morocco, which sent him to Libya; he was tortured to death there in 2009.